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Fitzpatrick Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$112kEducation$107kEnvironment$85kReligion$38kCrime & Legal$35kPublic Benefit$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$12,500
MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE RESCUE$2,000
PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
AL COPELAND FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CENTER FOR DEVELPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $4k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $3k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $13k → 11%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS: $2k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $2k → 11%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $13k → 23%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $12k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $10k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $8k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $8k → 23%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $8k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 23%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $14k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 23%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $5k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 23%PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 23%CONSERVING CAROLINA: $10k → 12%BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH: $3k → 23%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $8k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $8k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $7k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $4k → 12%FRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSN: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF MILLS RIVER LIBRARY: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 17 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$416k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+4574%

Still filing today

59%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Conserving Carolina
    6× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +191%
  • PB
    PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • AG
    Asheville GreenWorks
    5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Henderson
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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2
Broad River Volunteer Fire & Rescue Dept Inc

To provide fire protection and rescue service in the Broad River district of Buncombe County, NC.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
West Feliciana Historical Society

Preservation of West Feliciana Parish History

—
4
Huguenot Springs Cemetery Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…

—
6
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
7
Henderson Fire Department Relief Association

To provide retirement benefits to volunteer firefighters.

Membership Benefit
8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

—
9
Garren Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

To sponsor and promote united action by the residents of the Garren Creek Fire District for the protection and preservation of lives and property against injury and destruction by fire or other casualty.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc

To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Health
11
Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department

Provide volunteer fire and medical services to the local community

—
12
Bayou Community Foundation

Bayou Community Foundations strengthens Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish and Grand Isle, LA through philanthropic leadership to create a vibrant and diverse community where all can thrive.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mills River Fire & Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $58,500 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGEHISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION: $50,000 · OtherHISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTIONTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $38,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND SCHOOLFRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $32,150 · OtherFRENCH BROAD VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INCBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $22,000 · OtherBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INCPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER: $19,500 · OtherPRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTERAsheville GreenWorks: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · Other+11 more: $41,000 · Other+11 moreConserving Carolina: $72,000 · EnvironmentConserving Caroli…PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPRO BONO PU…MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC: $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOUNTAIN HO…+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationCommunity Foundation of Henderson: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$286,150Environment$72,000Public Safety & Disaster$48,000Education$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConserving Carolina: $72,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $12,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMILLS RIVER FIRE & RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY HEROES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME FIRE & RESCUE DEPT INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Henderson ↗
  • Who funds PARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILLS RIVER FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY HEROES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Freeman-Woollam Found…The Booth-Bricker FundEugenie & Joseph Jone…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Baptist Community Min…The Greater New Orlea…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family FoundaFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fitzpatrick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fitzpatrick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fitzpatrick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fitzpatrick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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